Sentences with phrase «same old standard»

Customized Controllers: It seems that the gamers have a lot to look forward to the controllers of Xbox 2 as they would be highly appreciated by the different colored scheme on the modified controllers rather than playing with the same old standard black controller.

If I meant it, why was I still standing in front of a classroom of 50 students, using the same old standard lecture format I employed as an assistant professor over 40 years ago?

Basically, The Cell is like receiving a Christmas present wrapped in beautiful ribbons, bows and wrapping paper, that when opened contains nothing more than the same old standard «pair of socks» present you get every year.

There's a better way to pry good ideas out of your customers than through the same old standard online platforms — you know, the ones that provide all users with access to other users» ideas and that group ideas into categories such as «Products» and «Experience.»

The idea of parity, that «we're no worse than the next guy» is being blown up by new entrants with new business models that aren't held to the same old standards and aren't doing business in the same old way.

Not exact matches

But why can you say god did it without the same degree of proof, 2000 year old scribblings do not meet any standard of proof.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

The standard Jewish Bible has the same canon but in twenty - four books, and the Old Testaments used by Catholics and the Orthodox — the vast majority of the world's Christians — contain a good many more books than does the Protestant Old Testament, including the stories of Judith, Tobias, and the Maccabees.

Say what you want about the old man wenger he is a still a renowned figure in world footballl and just like we would expect to replace the loss of our best players with better players we should have the same standard for whoever our new manager is.

Rob Holding, who's been at the club since the age of seven and joined Bury last week, is in exactly the same situation as Maher: 19 years old, out of contract at the end of the season, and not at the same standard as Taylor and Threlkeld.

The food, although same - ish, was of a very good standard and enough choice for even our 15 month old.

At the same time your score in standardised tests of learning and memory must fall at least one standard deviation below the mean score for 26 - year - olds.

Having had a front - row seat to the process, George knew it hadn't been the cleanest operation, but in the years since, he had realized that another device based on older AT technology, widely used standard x-ray machines with more than one pulse generator, provided almost exactly the same security value at less than half the cost of the CT machines.

We apply the same standards to older men.

Overdosing Creates the Same Old Problems This misconception about measuring hormones has been particularly misleading among those who use bioidentical hormones because one must take massive overdoses of hormones before they'll show up at all in a standard blood test.

When you map the appropriate nutrients onto the changing physiology of women it appears you can get better weight loss results than just a standard, same old thing day in day out approach.

Despite cable's relaxed standards for nudity and swearing, as well as the addition of new showrunner Ric Swartzlander («Gary Unmarried»), Cougar Town still feels like the same old show — a very good show at that.

Though the film follows a pretty standard cops - and - robbers formula, it does so with such razor - sharp proficiency and well - drawn characters that it succeeds not just as a terrific genre film but a modern American classic in the same vein as «No Country for Old Men.»

Among the vintage features dating to the theatrical release (standard definition, of course) is an old EPK that clocks in at 17 minutes and a promotional featurette with voiceover, more tightly edited from the same raw material, that runs 7 minutes.

Though the film follows a pretty standard cops - and - robbers formula, it does so with such razor - sharp proficiency and well - drawn characters that it succeeds not only as a terrific genre flick but a modern American classic in the same vein as «No Country for Old Men.»

Eight years ago, in that same Proficiency Illusion foreword, we suggested that «education standards in the U.S. should be tethered to real - world expectations for the skills and knowledge that 18 - year - olds need to possess in order to succeed in a modern economy and democratic polity.

Now I teach 8 year olds and everyone is expected to meet the same standard, despite the large number of EAL learners and also several children who have diagnosed LD.

Failure to understand the Standards and adjust practices accordingly will likely result in «same old, same old» teaching with only superficial connections to the grade - level standards.

Instead of age - based grade levels — placing all 11 - year - olds in 5th grade and holding them to the same performance standards — let students proceed on the basis of mastery, one unit or module at a time, subject by subject, with no obligation to all move at the same rate.

The 25th percentile mathematics score for 13 - year - old white students also increased, but by just 0.29 standard deviations over the same period.

At the very least it might prove to be a bit of entertainment with the same old, tired, adequately disproven - it's just a set of standards nonsense.

Officials said today that they anticipate that students would be held back under the new standards at the same rate as under the old rules.

Rather AIR is the same old stale Common Core company that has a contract with the Smarter Balanced testing group that, along with the PARCC testing group that Arizona used to be a part of, received over $ 350 million from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a Common Core test to assess the privately owned and secretly created federal Common Core standards.

In the old model, states with higher risk student populations were held to the same testing standards regardless of their improvement progress or funding challenges.

OK, not really, but we're lulled to sleep by the same old 106 - hp four - cylinder and optional four - speed automatic (a five - speed manual is standard).

The idea with the AMG CLA is basically the same as with the standard CLA: Connect with younger buyers and cultivate loyalists who will purchase SL65s or SLSs when they grow older and richer.

In fact, most everything is standard — Scion says the new xB, like the old one, is «mono - spec,» meaning they all arrive with essentially the same equipment.

Standard PASM means all 911s now have the same ride height (10 mm below the old standard set - up) and new - generation shock absorbers, which are claimed to have a wider spread of characteristics and enhanced Standard PASM means all 911s now have the same ride height (10 mm below the old standard set - up) and new - generation shock absorbers, which are claimed to have a wider spread of characteristics and enhanced standard set - up) and new - generation shock absorbers, which are claimed to have a wider spread of characteristics and enhanced comfort.

Sure, a 3 Series Estate — priced from $ 64,500 — is probably a cheaper, more practical alternative for most people, but it's only available with older four - cylinder engines, doesn't offer all - wheel drive or the same level of standard convenience and dynamic features, and doesn't look as cool as the X4.

Sharp looks, an efficient diesel engine and generous standard equipment are key to its appeal, but unlike Hyundais of old, it's no longer a budget choice and costs around the same as most of its key rivals in the large family - car class.

The two cars also share the same aluminium intensive chassis, with a common wheelbase and track widths on standard models providing a significantly larger footprint than that of the old C - Class Coupé.

Women who had believed they had no choice but to spend the rest of their lives cooped up in the same old towns, trying to live up to the rigid standards of the day, found themselves with new prospects.

Summer represents the time they spend in workshop sessions on new academic standards and requirements where they learn about the new topics they will be required to teach on the same old budgets they've endured for years.

By contrast, a 50 year - old male smoker would be given a «Standard» rating, and could expect to pay $ 500 or more per month for the same 20 - year, $ 500,000 term life policy.

So, if our 70 - year - old couple, who have an annual RMD between the two of them of $ 24,000, can instead direct $ 10,000 of it to charity as a QCD, it will reduce their taxable income by $ 10,000 and they still get to claim the same $ 26,550 standard deduction.

The AKC standard, from which most national breed clubs elsewhere in the world drew their own standards, was derived from the older ASCA standard and is largely similar and is essentially the same as regards tails: «Tail is straight, docked or naturally bobbed, not to exceed four inches in length.»

The same tools, the same ingredients, and most importantly the same centuries - old process that creates the standard adhered to at STG.

Shantaa Resort — It's an older resort but one that keeps up the same super high standards year after year.

Standard walking speed is about the same as an old lady who complains about the weather a lot, and you can only backpedal at a snail's pace, which feels odd in a game involving melee combat, although said combat is utterly imprecise and has about as much sense of impact as two snails colliding, with just as much finesse.

The music is good, not exactly the same high standard we have had with older Touhou games but it's catchy and enjoyable although maybe a tad light - hearted for a bullet - hell fighter.

As if storms graphics were to set any kind of standard all the same, cell shaded graphics are cell shaded graphics visuals don't mean jack either for anime games, personally the storm games are pretty ass compared to the older more manga looking ultimate ninja games.

Each new game mode now comes in three lengths: quick (same as quick play), standard (a new faster mode between the old quick play and default), and extended (the same as the old default).

While Star Wars 1313 (above image) looks quite pretty by every standard, it seems to me like the same old cover - based shooter that looks amazing because it's running on a $ 2500 PC, and considering that the modern PC is reportedly a generation ahead of current consoles, there is a slim chance of us getting anything more.

While other rail shooters are content to basically serve up the same old formula, the ambitious Extraction aims to create something new, adding a jittery camera and an intriguing story to the standard shooting gallery mechanics.

The «digital» version, although purchased from a retail store, could have all the same restrictions / benefits as the old policies, while the standard physical game acts as always